Dan Bailey has over 15 years' commercial experience developing and supporting successful software, working mainly for multinational companies and holding increasingly senior positions. He also taken an active interest in the open source community and contribute to technical forums. Over the years he has enjoyed working with people of many nationalities and backgrounds and have worked with a large range of technologies, and used several programming languages, including .NET and Java. He's implemented and taken lead roles for large-scale industrial solutions. His experience started with trusted languages such as C and C++, all the way through to the latest .NET and Java frameworks. He's an expert in many communication protocols including REST/HTTP, TCP/IP, web services, and in particular associated design patterns, which are ever more important for connecting systems together. Modern factories are smart and connected in the age of the Internet of Things. He's has been at the cutting edge of software development across this domain, for well known global companies who manufacture mobile phones, and automotive electronics, for example. Software quality and performance are paramount at all times. Over recent years he's been the inventor and lead architect for new event-driven communication standard used in Internet of Things industrial products. Dan holds a first-class honors Masters degree in engineering, and is a chartered engineer with the IEE, UK in addition to several other certifications. He's published several white papers on different software subjects. Outside software-related work, Dan spends his time with his family, and enjoy cycling and part time football coaching.
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